How to Improve Your Spouse’s Changes of a Well-funded Retirement

“Three key decisions about retirement benefits can help couples make their money last — or dramatically increase the chances that the survivor will end up old and broke.

Widowed women are twice as likely as their male counterparts to live in poverty during retirement, according to a March study by the National Institute on Retirement Security. But anyone who outlives a mate can be vulnerable to a big drop in income and lifestyle because of shortsighted decisions about claiming benefits.” -LA Times